Then update your sources and install the packages: scim, scim-hangulIf you have other sources enabled, just verify the packages really come from VL extra before installing.

Note: the scim-hangul package has been built to hook into skim the KDE front-end of scim as well as the gtk version (scim) so this will pull in KDE dependencies; it should be possible to use this package without KDE, provided it is installed using the installpkg command rather than slapt-get or gslapt. The package can be found here: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/extra/libs/scim-hangul-0.2.2-i586-4vl58.tlz but this method is untested by me as I already had KDE apps installed when I went to install the scim-hangul package.

Once this is done you need to add a file in /etc/profile.d/ and make it executable:

Note to scim-anthy (japanese input) users: Both scim-hangul and scim-anthy will work regardless of whether your LC_CTYPE is set to ko_KR.utf8 or ja_JP.utf.8 (it *may* work with ANY .utf8 LC_CTYPE but this is untested by me) but LC_CTYPE needs to be set in this file for SCIM to work!!